Landscape design : a cultural and architectural history / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Object Details

Author

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow 1936-

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction : The shaping of space ; the meaning of place -- Magic, myth, and nature : landscapes of prehistoric, early ancient, and contemporary peoples -- Nature, art, and reason : landscape design in the classical world -- Visions of paradise : landscape design as symbol and metaphor -- Classicism reborn : landscape ideals of the Renaissance in Italy and France -- Power and glory : the genius of Le Notre and the grandeur of the Baroque -- Expanding horizons : court and city in the European grand manner -- Sense and sensibility : landscapes of the Age of Reason, romanticism, and revolution -- Nature as muse : the gardens of China and Japan -- Expanding cities and new social institutions : the democratization of landscape design -- Industrial Age civilization : birth of the modern city, beaux-arts America, and national parks -- Landscape as aesthetic experience : the arts and crafts movement and the revival of the formal garden -- Social utopias : modernism and regional planning -- New landscape aesthetic : the modernist garden -- Home, commerce, and entertainment : landscapes of consumerism -- Holding on and letting grow : landscape as preservation, conservation, art, sport, and theory -- Weaving of place and the geography of flows : landscape as bodily experience and vernacular expression

2001

Type

Books

Physical description

544 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Landscape architecture--History

Landscape design--History

Record ID

siris_sil_718463

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